An item from our collections in recognition of World Theatre Day. This is the promptbook from Henry
An item from our collections in recognition of World Theatre Day. This is the promptbook from Henry Irving’s 1874 staging of Hamlet, in which he experimented with using limelight (burning calcium oxide) to represent the ghost of Hamlet’s father.TS Promptbooks Sh 154.75Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University -- source link
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